Plague.e00 is an ARC/INFO interchange file. The file can only be used
with Geographic Information System (GIS) software, such as ARC/INFO, the
file's native format, or by importing it into another GIS software package.

Plague.e00 was digitized from a paper map. The source of which is:
"Distribution of Plague 1900-1952: Atlas of Diseases ? Plate 6." The
American Geographical Society, The Geographic Review, Vol. 42, No. 4, 1952.

This GIS data was created as part of The Center for International
Development?s ongoing research into the role of geography in economic
development (see www.cid.harvard.edu/economic.htm)
<http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidglobal/economic.htm>. It was created
between 1998 and 1999. Please reference CID if you use this data in a
publication.

